LAW OFFICES OF OLIVER ZHOU

Founded in 1996, our Law Firm has been known as one of the premier American boutique firms for over a decade. It has the responsiveness and personal relationships of a boutique firm with the sophisticated immigration, real estate, corporate and litigation law practice of a larger, more established firm. Our partners and associates are recognized around the world for our commitment to the representation of our clients’ best interests, and are highly regarded in our respective fields of practice. Our objective is to be the law firm of choice for our clients with respect to their most challenging issues, most significant business transactions and most critical litigation matters. 

Our firm represents clients throughout the United States, Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Canada, India, Southeast Asian Countries, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and other European countries with respect to their immigration matters in the United States. The size of our Firm's clients ranges from Fortune 500 companies to start-up businesses and individuals who require a full range of immigration services in the United States and Canada.

Our firm regularly advises our corporate clients on a wide range of corporate and financial matters. We are able to call upon our expertise and experience in dealing with corporate, litigation and regulatory issues in a variety of fields to assist our clients in formulating specific plans to address their particular issues for the purpose of achieving the targeted success.

Our real estate practice is composed of a broad range of complex real estate transaction, including but not limited to real estate fund offering, portfolio acquisition, joint ventures, real estate development such as condominium and shopping malls, purchase, sale, financing and restructuring transactions, etc.

Our firm is regularly retained by our clients confronted with litigation matters. We represent clients in trials and appeals in federal and state courts ranging from international business disputes to intellectual property misappropriation, from insurance to bankruptcy, and medical malpractice to labor practice, and from defamation/first amendment to divorce, etc. We have built a distinguished history of commercial litigation for our corporate and individual clients.

The Firm's practice is based upon the philosophy of developing relationships through effective legal service and practical value, at the expense of short-term profit. Quality is the hallmark of our practice, and each of our practice areas is regarded as among the finest in the United States and the world.

The Firm's client list is as follows:

1.         Goldman Sachs;

2.         Harvard University;

3.         Princeton University;

4.         MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology);

5.         Columbia University;

6.         Honeywell International, Inc. (Allied Signal, Inc.);

7.         Lucent Technologies;

8.         Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;

9.         Mount Sinai Medical Center;

10.       New York University/Polytechnic University at New York;

11.       University of British Columbia;

12.       Rutgers University;

13.       University of Minnesota;

14.       University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey;

15.       New Jersey Institute of Technology;

16.       New York Institute of Technology;

17.       The Juilliard School;

18.       Mannes College the New School for Music;

19.       New Jersey City University;

20.       The City University of New York;

21.       New York City Department of Transportation;

22.       University of South Florida;

23.       City of Jersey City, New Jersey;

24.       Mercy College, New York;

25.       Evergreen Medical Clinic, P.C.;

26.       Merck & Co, Inc.;

27.       Roche;

28.       Schering-Plough Corp;

29.       Novartis;

30.       KDDI America, Inc.;

31.       Syms Corp.;

32.       Tokyu World Transport (USA), Inc.;

33.       Sid Paterson Advertising Inc.;

34.       Sumisho Computer Systems (USA), Inc.;

35.       Magna Group, Inc.;

36.       Kiso & Tanaka, LLP.;

37.       Thornton Tomasetti Group, Inc.;

38.       Univest Securities, Inc.;

39.       Nippon Valqua Industries, Ltd. (Valqua America, Inc.);

40.       Unitrendix Corp.;

41.       RD Automation, Inc.;

42.       Automatic Switch, Inc.;

43.       Optiver Derivatives Trading, U.S.A. LLC.;

44.       The RBA Group, Inc.;

45.       G. W. Laboratories, Inc.

46.       Heat Timer, Inc.;

47.       Tico T Shirt, Inc.;

48.       Zeus Scientific, Inc.;

49.       Diamond Shoes, Inc.;

50.       Amplidyne, Inc.;

51.       Total Computing Solutions of America, Inc.;

52.       H.L.Yoh Company, LLC (Yoh Scientific, LLC.);

53.       Media Japan, Inc.;

54.       EB Pass, Inc.

55.       Arco, Inc.

56.       Atometrics Engineering, Inc.

57.       Parsons, The New School for Design;

58.       University of Rochester—Eastman School of Music;

Attorneys:

OLIVER ZHOU graduated with a L.L.B. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1984, and a L.L.M. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1987. He continued on to earn a J.D. degree from Rutgers University Law School-Newark, New Jersey, in 1995.

Mr. Zhou is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York, the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, the U.S. Immigration Court, and all courts in the State of New York and New Jersey.

Mr. Zhou has extensive experience in immigration law, real estate, corporate and litigation matters. He has won a number of appeal cases in the courts of New Jersey and New York, and the Board of Immigration Appeals in regard of the national interest waiver application. He is also the columnist regarding immigration law and other legal issues for a number of Chinese newspapers in the United States, and has the authorship of more than two hundred articles regarding the U.S. immigration law. Equally important, he is also the author of a number of scholarly papers in English with respect to American copyright law.